{"id":2365,"date":"2011-12-09T21:26:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T21:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/bhg\/2011\/europe-for-the-millions-rather-than-the-millionaires\/"},"modified":"2011-12-09T21:26:01","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T21:26:01","slug":"europe-for-the-millions-rather-than-the-millionaires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2011\/europe-for-the-millions-rather-than-the-millionaires\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe: for the millions rather than the millionaires"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='posterous_autopost'>\u00b7 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Referendum must be held on summit agreement <br \/>\u00b7 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u2018Austerity union\u2019 would be disastrous for people across Europe <br \/>\u00b7 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Socialist Party will be to fore in campaigning for a <br \/>referendum and for a no vote <\/p>\n<p \/> Socialist Party TDs Joe Higgins and Clare Daly, together with <br \/>Socialist Party MEP , Paul Murphy, have called for a referendum to be <br \/>held on the outcome of the European summit, which will entail a <br \/>significant transfer of power in budgetary matters from the Dail to <br \/>the European Commission, Council and Court of Justice. The Socialist <br \/>Party will be campaigning vigorously for a referendum and for a no <br \/>vote if a referendum is held. <\/p>\n<p \/> Paul Murphy MEP declared: <\/p>\n<p \/> \u201cAny attempt by this government to avoid going to the people on this <br \/>agreement must be vigorously resisted. The outcome of the summit <br \/>represents a serious attack on democratic rights and an attempt to <br \/>institutionalise austerity. People have a right to have a say on such <br \/>a significant transfer of power from national parliaments to the EU <br \/>and enshrining of austerity, which will have such a major impact on <br \/>their lives. It certainly seems that any attempt to avoid a referendum <br \/>would be a breach of the Crotty judgement, as this agreement without a <br \/>doubt involves a significant transfer of powers to the EU. <\/p>\n<p \/> \u201cThe \u2018fiscal stability union\u2019 being proposed is an austerity union, <br \/>with neo-liberalism \u00a0locked into countries\u2019 constitutions and <br \/>supervised by the European Commission and Council. The results of this <br \/>would be disastrous for the whole of Europe, just as the EU\/IMF plans <br \/>being implemented in Ireland, Greece and Portugal have further wrecked <br \/>the economies of all three countries and thrown millions into misery. <\/p>\n<p \/> \u201cI and the Socialist Party will be to the fore in campaigning for a <br \/>referendum and calling for a no vote in such a referendum. In opposing <br \/>this austerity union, we will be putting forward an alternative of a <br \/>genuinely democratic and socialist Europe, which is run for the <br \/>millions rather than the millionaires and where resources would be <br \/>used to get people back to work rather than paying for the gambling <br \/>debts of speculators.?? <\/p>\n<p \/> ENDS<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00b7 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Referendum must be held on summit agreement \u00b7 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u2018Austerity union\u2019 would be disastrous for people across Europe \u00b7 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Socialist Party will be to fore in campaigning for a referendum and for a no vote Socialist Party TDs Joe Higgins and Clare Daly, together with Socialist&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2011\/europe-for-the-millions-rather-than-the-millionaires\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Europe: for the millions rather than the millionaires<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}